Catholics started Pentecostalism?

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I ran across the most intriguing story: According to catholicworldreport.com, the Blessed Elena Guerra (founder of the Oblates of the Holy Spirit) and Pope Leo XIII helped start Pentecostalism in the USA on January 1, 1901!?? Pentecostalism now has over 400 million adherents as well as over 150 million Catholic Charismatics. Researchers say that there have been more converts in the past ~50 years than the entire Reformation.

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Link & excerpt below:

www.catholicworldreport.com

The Charismatic Renewal and the Catholic Church

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Catholic from the outset
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The worldwide charismatic movement, which now includes an estimated 700 million people around the world, of which an estimated 160 million are Catholics, has its origins in the events of January 1, 1901, when a young girl began speaking in tongues after the prayer and invocation of the Holy Spirit by a lay evangelist of Methodist extraction. This took place in Topeka, Kansas; from there the movement grew and gradually spread to the established churches in the Protestant and Orthodox traditions, and lastly to the Roman Catholic Church.

Although customs and terminology were grafted onto the Catholic Charismatic Renewal from these Pentecostal sources, the Catholic Church had its own part to play in the January 1, 1901 beginning. On that morning, in Rome, before young Agnes Ozman started speaking in tongues in Topeka, Pope Leo XIII ushered in the new century by solemnly invoking the Holy Spirit over all of Christendom.
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Sorry my numbers were off…

The worldwide charismatic movement, which now includes an estimated 700 million people around the world, of which an estimated 160 million are Catholics…
 
Nice try, but no. Pope Leo XIII did not help start any Protestant churches, at least not on purpose. Methodism is a schism of the Anglican Church, which is a schism of the Catholic Church. When Catholics pray for Christian unity, they envision Churches with valid bishops and all seven sacraments, including one Communion. Christ started His Church at Pentecost. Its’ four distinctive marks are that it is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Those who keep starting new churches two thousand years later hoping to finally get it right are not following His will.
 
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Pentecostalism in the U.S. started in 1896 in a camp meeting of a group known as the Christian Union, later to become the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee). Trust me on this one, Catholics had nothing to do with it.

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Nice try? Were you talking to me? I didn’t write the articles on these Catholic websites. These Catholic sources are giving Pope Leo & Elena Guerra for starting the Pentecostal movement. It appears that the Catholic Charismatics also trace their origin to this event as well. The point is that the pope invoked the Holy Spirit on the world at midnight on Jan 1, 1901 (the true start of the 20th century) and then at 7pm 12/31 Kansas time (or 2am Rome time) Agnes Oznam started speaking in tongues during a prayer meeting that was awaiting the blessings of the Holy Spirit, with no knowledge of the Pope’s invocation.

The question is: is this really the work of the Holy Spirit? All evidence points to yes.

If so, why did it go to the Protestants first (before coming back around to the Catholics in 1967)? And if so, why is the Catholic Church resisting the spread of Pentecostalism in places like Latin America & Africa.

Like Gamaliel said to the Pharisees:

“And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.” —Acts 5:38–39

Here is the origin of Pentecostalism from the (Encyclopedia) Britannica.com. Same story, but they are unaware of the “Pope connection” (the Catholicwordreport.com article did mention that few people, Protestant or Catholic, are aware of this fact.)
Notwithstanding the charismatic outbursts in some 19th-century Protestant churches, the watershed of contemporary Pentecostalism came in the early 20th century at Bethel Bible College, a small religious school in Topeka, Kansas. The college’s director, Charles Fox Parham, one of many ministers who was influenced by the Holiness movement, believed that the complacent, worldly, and coldly formalistic church needed to be revived by another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. He instructed his students—many of whom already were ministers—to pray, fast, study the Scriptures, and, like the Apostles, await the blessings of the Holy Spirit.

On January 1, 1901, Agnes Oznam became the first of Parham’s students to speak in an unknown tongue. Others soon had the same experience, and Parham claimed that glossolalia was the “initial evidence” that one had been truly baptized with the Holy Spirit. Parham and his students understood these recurrences of Pentecost prophetically, interpreting them as signs of the imminence of the last days, or Endtime. Imbued with this sense of urgency, they set out on an evangelical mission.
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Pope Leo XIII would spin in his grave at the thought of himself starting any sort of Protestant movement.

I highly doubt that the Pope invoking the Holy Spirit over the world would trigger some nutty non-Catholic girl speaking in tongues on another continent.
 
Good job .defining your opinions.

Fr. John harden. Defines Pentecostal. Charismatic. And other “ism” as Protestant.
And if you read his teaching on mystics. Or visionary and visions.
He never met any spiritual non Catholics.

As to your opinions on manifestations of the holy spirit. And application. Its clear like many people. Its all intellectual.

I thank Jesus for the people who demonstrate the authority and manifestations of the holy spirit. And the written bible does NOT include all knowledge. But it does get some full of the holy spirit.
 
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